On Apr 18, 2007, at 17:00 , Jordan Crouse wrote: > On 18/04/07 12:36 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> Another option that has been discussed is rendering at lower >> resolution and using the Geode's video scaler, which supposedly can >> do arbitrary scaling of RGB565 (see p. 388 of the LX data book). I'm >> not sure if this is exposed in X11, though, or if this is even >> feasible to use for a frame buffer (it reads like it might be for >> external video sources only). > > Please, stop perpetrating this myth. The LX can not scale > arbitrary chunks > of pixels - it can only upscale and downscale the entire visible > area. This > is available to X through some clever RandR tweaking.
Err - which myth are you referring to? If we could upscale the whole screen (effectively lowering the framebuffer size) we'd be happy campers I guess? Note this is not only interesting for 3D but for any kind of full-screen animation. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
